Great to hear, too many devices haven’t written the software to address the microscopic button bounce. Looking at you Planet Computers (Gemini, Cosmo) and my dirt cheap aliexpress umpc, although the double strikes aren’t at all common with the toposh.
Some desktop environments have a keyboard de-bounce slider in the accessibility options that may help with that, but im not sure about Raspbian/ClockworkOS as i haven’t needed to check and i don’t have my uConsole with me right now. If you are ever on a distro that doesnt have that setting slider, there are a couple settings you can play with through the command line. Ill post the man page links here as they will explain far better than i can.
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I am mostly on wayland Gnome, but I’ll take a look, thanks. My Cosmo is unfixable (android phone with psion like keyboard) but I’ll certainly take a look for my toposh, even though its infrequent it is still annoying when it happens.
Oooh looks like it is built in in Gnome. Thanks bud. I hadn’t looked. Was taking a break after getting the essx8336 soundcard working and the screen rotated in grub and gnome, mapping the mouse buttons and all the other fixes.
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I have an A06 DevTerm, gqrx runs great. I run dump1090 on it, too. gqrx is qt5 so it probably copes better with the uConsole’s screen dimensions but I haven’t tried playing with it on the uConsole yet.
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Same! I got my console just under two months ago, been playing with gqrx and dump1090. I just discovered I can use kdenlive to edit video on the uConsole also. I have installed KDE plasma and it’s very pleasant to use.
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I would want to work on the road. Vim/wiki, taskwarrior, KiCAD, dwarf fortress, Anki or the other programs that you can work on while traveling by train.
Has anyone ever looked at how to get a camera into the uConsole? the photo quality only had to be good enough for photos of whiteboards or documentation.
Your best bet right now is probably the upico expansion but that will involve some wiring and programming
I’ve tested a USB webcam and it works as expected on my A06 unit. I know it’s not the most convenient way, but it does work!
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I tested some security audit tools, such as fluxion [GitHub - FluxionNetwork/fluxion: Fluxion is a remake of linset by vk496 with enhanced functionality.], including attempting to install and use some tools on Kali, which can be run, though the efficiency is somewhat low. I also played some retro arcade games. But currently, once I use my TL-WN722N network adapter, it will freeze after running for a while, and I don’t know why yet.
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I don’t think dwarf fortress will work due to performance reasons
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either the uconsole is less powerful than i thought or dwarf fortress is more demanding than i thought
(if that’s the case)
that’s a horrible adapter.
Unless it’s one of the old v1 models.
Hey @markatlnk,
I’m curious about your programming experience. How’s the keyboard handling for you?
I’m planning to get one and have it on me every time I go out for a coffee or during holidays to have it as a backup device in case I need to edit something fast using Vim.
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Hi Azdreny,
Old guy here, my main language is C, but have programmed in many different languages.
I would not be happy typing much on it. The original keyboard requires way too much force to press. I modified mine a bit and it now takes way less, but I am picky about such things. I am always looking for the smallest keyboard I can actually type on and this isn’t that. At the moment with the uConsole, I don’t have bluetooth. I am running a CM4S module with a WiFi dongle. I have a normal CM4 on order, but it hasn’t shipped yet. With the DevTerm, I do like the keys way better, but the spacing is too small to touch type and too big to thumb it. With that one I use either the Apple Magic keyboard as it is thin and has a power switch, or I use one I got off of AliExpress, the B.O.W bluetooth keyboard. That is just big enough to touch type on and yet folds small.
The modification I did to the uConsole is to tape something really small and hard to the top of each of the dome switches. I used either 0603 or 0805 resistors. I have yet to try it, but might attempt to actually 3D print keys.
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Ok, 3D printable keys would be pretty awesome. Especially if they had clear letters for the backlight.
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That’s great. The keyboard is something I’m worried about as well; you have to exert pressure to click. 3D printing the keys could be a potential solution for this. Thanks for the insight.
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